Self-Sufficiency and
Basic Needs
| The number of families and individuals in Cuyahoga County facing unemployment, financial problems, and difficulty securing adequate housing and food has increased significantly. In response, United Way has increased its investment in programs to make basic human needs -- food, housing and jobs leading to self-sufficiency -- more available to those in need. Your United Way knows that having a job is the key to self-sufficiency and funds services that address barriers to employment including job training and placement, adequate child care so that parents can work without worrying about their children, and specialized programs to help our disabled residents enjoy purposeful and meaningful lives.
We're helping our working poor achieve self-sufficiency and sustainable employment through job skills training, stay-in-school strategies for junior high and high school youths and child care services that promote child development. Additionally, we're helping people with disabilities obtain employment. We're working to prevent homelessness, providing basic needs such as food and shelter and helping people and families in need obtain stable or improved housing. We're implementing outreach strategies that will help people and households without adequate food participate in government food programs. We're helping people who were formerly incarcerated to successfully integrate back into their families and community by accessing services to help with affordable housing, education, employment and health benefits. And we're working to help families and individuals in financial distress through credit counseling and financial literacy education on payday lending, scams and high-risk mortgages. |
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For more than 95 years, United Way of Greater Cleveland has been focused on programs that improve the lives of those around us – but we can’t do it without your help. Whether you are a new donor or you’ve been a loyal contributor, your support can help strengthen our community at this critical time.
How I Live United
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to one, we influence the
condition of all. That's what
it means to LIVE UNITED.
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LIVE UNITED. How do you get involved? What organizations, causes and communities are close to your heart? How do you "Give. Advocate. Volunteer."?
Upcoming Events
September 2, 2010
Enjoy a pancake breakfast for only $5 and help our community when United Way kicks off its 2010 Campaign. Join us on Public Square from 7 to 10 a.m.
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September 14, 2010
Enjoy a day on the links with Browns alumni at United Way's 13th Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament at Hemlock Springs Golf Club in Geneva.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Come One, Come All to the Rock United Benefit Concert at the Barley House on Sept. 24. The concert is presented by Oswald Companies and featuers popular Ohio natives and concert headliners Red Wanting Blue.
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Our Mission
United Way of Greater Cleveland is a leader in addressing health and human service needs through convening partnerships, funding programs, generating resources, and advocating for public policy to support our community's priorities.